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Birthday Cake Round-Up: To Infinity and Beyond!

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Don’t you just love birthday cakes?! My first “fun” birthday cake was a Big Mac. Really, it was. I was a spoiled only child for several years and somewhere in that time period, I got a special birthday party at McDonalds, complete with a hamburger shaped cake. Too cool. After that, it was hit and miss on the birthday cakes. Probably because we never thought to dress up a plain cake with frosting, candy, and toys.

It’s by far the simplest way to make a themed cake. And my contribution today’s Birthday Cake Round-Up is no different. I just have the most success decorating cakes this way. Ya gotta go with your strengths, ya know?

Tomorrow Toy Story 3 opens in theaters so I thought it was perfect timing to make a Toy Story cake, featuring Buzz Lightyear. He’s one of our favorites. However, much to my chagrin, my 6 year old thinks his name is “Buzz Light.” Thank you, Football Season and Anheuser-Busch!

What’s a fun, creative cake you’ve made lately?

Share your link below! This is a great way to get ideas and be inspired for your child’s next birthday.

Everyone who participates today (via photo, comment, or link-up) will be entered for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate from Bake It Pretty.

Pop over to Bake It Pretty and take a look. You will be totally amazed at the beautiful baking cups and other items they have to make all your cakes pretty. Oh my! Love it! And buy me something while you’re there. 😉

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Clearly, your 6 year old needs to watch the Toy Story movies a few dozen more times – then he’ll have Buzz’s name right for sure. By 6 I’d lost count of how many times my, now 8 1/2 year old, s on had watched those movies. He’s really psyched about seeing the movie.

I linked up with two cakes that I’ve featured on my blog – a Pokemon cake and a Swimming Bears cake. I LOVE making cakes but find that time is an issue. I just have to make sure to set aside the time to make and decorate the cake in the midst of busy birthday week-ends! I particularly like to fill cakes with pudding and recently had great success using a double-tall “moat” to keep the gobs of pudding in the middle layer.

My goodness these cakes are adorable! Love the Buzz cake and the four wheelin cake is super cool. I linked up a few posts – sorry the cake photos were in the full party posts {hope that’s ok} Thanks for hosting this linky – I can not wait to check out some amazing inspirations! Hope you are enjoying your week! Stephanie Lynn

What fun! We are looking forward to the movie too! My oldest DS works at the theatre…so we get to see our movies for free!
Bake It Pretty is one of my favorite places! Thanks so much for hosting and for offering the giveaway!
~Liz

This is such a fun link up theme! I love looking at cakes decorated by other moms for their kids. There’s nothing like that personal touch. I starting doing cakes for my kids a few years ago and don’t want to go back to store bought for sure now. It’s well worth the effort.

This is such a great roundup! I love seeing what all the creative Moms out there are doing for birthday cakes. What did we ever do before blogs?! I just love seeing all the creative ideas and photos from across the U.S. and elsewhere.

The link I put was the cake I made for my oldest daughter’s b-day this year. I forgot to name the link… sorry. I got the pirate cake kit and added Tinkerbell and some of the other faries.
I’m still fairly new to decorating cakes for my girls…
Thanks for the ideas!

I love it! I have always made my kids cakes, but I am not good. Kids are so sweet and don’t notice that they aren’t perfect. I hope they one day can smile when they see how horrible they were and just love me anyway.

How fun, I peeked around to see other’s cakes. I shared my Dinosaur cake I made for our 3 yr old (you’ll have to click the picture to see it better). I made it a homemade dark chocolate cake, and that was so good! Stop by and say Hi, you saw it linked here!

These cakes are great!
And so inspiring – I especially love Bob the Builder – and I can’t wait to check out everyone’s links!
I have linked to a cake i made for a first birthday last year – the very hungry catepillar.
Thanks for sharing these! =)

Thanks for doing this round-up. I love getting ideas! I’m taking a cake decorating class this summer, so this is great for me! I showed a few birthday cakes that I made for my boys this year–Little Einsteins & a Wii cake.

I bake most of the cakes for my family. However, we are all “grown-ups” so I haven’t had the opportunity to get to make a fun kid-themed birthday cake. My most recent creation was a Baked Alaska for my dad’s birthday. I would love to win a gift certificate!

I landed on your blog when I was searching for a planner I can use during the summer to keep the house and four kids organized. I learned a lot from your planner post, and took some ideas. Thank you for sharing.

I just love the cakes. I’m afraid to admit in the midst of all these creative mothers that I…gulp…bought a cake for my little guy’s first birthday. Maybe this year I’ll attempt to make my own cake–his b-day is coming up in August. Thanks so much for the inspiration!

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